§ MR. ESSLEMONT (Aberdeen, E.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture how he proposes to meet the 922 difficulties which Local Authorities will experience in obtaining good and cheap holdings to meet the requirements of the various districts if the price is fixed by Her Majesty's Government at 30 years purchase?
§ MR. CHAPLINThe hon. Member must be aware that it would be altogether unusual and most inconvenient for a Minister to explain the provisions of a Bill not yet introduced by way of question and answer across the floor of the House. I am afraid, with no intention whatever of discourtesy to the hon. Member, that that is the only reply that I can give him. I may add that to the assumption contained in the question that the price of holdings is to be fixed by the Government at 30 years' purchase, or at any other number of years' purchase, is purely gratuitous.